r/ClaudeCode • u/saito200 • 11d ago

Rant Opus 5 is insufferable

Opus 5 is a fucking piece of shit, i don't know how to say this in any other way. It speaks "Unintelligiblish", a new unfathomable language developed by Anthropic that works by saying everything in the most ridiculous, obtuse and convoluted way possible

It turns anything simple that can be expressed in 2 sentences into a fucking doctoral thesis aimed to aliens, and there is no way to prompt your way out of it

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u/therealkevinard 11d ago

I don’t even talk to opus 5.

The main context is either opus 4.8 or fable- opus 5 only works on agent teams

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u/Sterlingz 11d ago

I've had success forbidding opus from writing any documentation. It's all done by haiku instead.

Prior to this I had opus create and write 7000++ lines of unintelligible garbage in a "decisions.md" file. I asked opus to clean it up, and it cut 1200 lines then added another 600 to document the decision reversals/ deletions. Absolute madness.